Islesboro Islands

Trust2012/13 Annual Report

PO Box 182 · 376 West Bay Road · Islesboro, Maine 04848207-734-6907 (voice) · 207-734-6747 (fax) · iitsmill@gmail.com (email)

www.islesboroislandstrust.org

MIssIOnEnhance the quality of residents’ lives through

the preservation of open space,

Educate all residents as to the value of the islands’ natural ecosystems, and

Act as an environmental advocate on behalf of Islesboro and the surrounding Penobscot Bay region.

Layout by Marilyn SmithPrinted on 100% post-consumer recycled paper made with 100% renewable energy.

Islesboro Nature Trails

Warren’s LandingThis property, located at the end of Lime Kiln Road, was given to the Town of Islesboro by IIT in 1993. It offers shore access and views across East Penobscot Bay to Castine and Cape Rosier. Warren’s Landing is the site of an historic lime kiln and steamboat wharf.

Hinkle PreserveProvides access to a sand and gravel beach, a picnic area and a short loop trail through a fern meadow under mature hardwoods. Access is from Point Comfort Road.One trail: 0.2 miles

Hutchins Island and MarshThese neighboring preserves offer two spectacular hikes in the Coombs and Parker Coves area. Elaine’s Trail leads inland around the wetlands and beaver flowages of Hutchins Marsh. The Hutchins Island Trail crosses a tidal sandbar, and then follows the shoreline of Hutchins Island. Both trails offer excellent wildlife viewing opportunities. Over 139 species of plants and 112 species of birds and other wildlife are found here. Parking is at the end of Bluff Road.Two trails: 2.5 miles total

Turtle HeadThis preserve at the northern tip of Islesboro offers dramatic views of both east and west Penobscot Bay, spectacular geological formations, historical sites and a variety of interesting ecological features. Access is from Turtle Head Road. Shore access is also available.Three trails: 1.5 miles total

Big Tree BeachThis is a popular swimming beach with westerly views across Seal Harbor to Flat Island and the Camden Hills. Access is from Main Road.

Narrows PreserveThis short loop trail along the shoreline of Crow Cove offers scenic salt marsh views and good birdwatching. Access is from Main Road. One trail plus ashor spur: 0.5 miles

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Broad Point PreserveIIT’s newest preserve, acquired in August 2012, offers nearly fifty acres of spectacular shorefront on Mill Creek, Broad Cove and Gilkey Harbor. One loop trail: approximately 1.5 miles

Lily Guest TrailThis IIT-managed trail is entirely on private land and offers a beautiful walk along the shore of Jones Cove.One trail: 1.5 miles

· All trails blue-blazed· Maps and rules are posted at preserve trailheads

Herbert PreserveThe Herbert Preserve offers two loop trails in the scenic Ryder’s Cove area. The Herbert Trail explores the western side of the preserve following the salt marsh edge and returning through upland forest and steep drainage ravines. The Eastern Trail winds through early-successional forest alond the shore of the Mill Pond providing access to the Day Brigham Memorial Lookout. Access is from Ryder’s Cove Road.Two trails: 1.75 miles total

•Cregar CenterSite of the IIT office and surrounding gardens. The property includes a small piece of shore as well.

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Letter from Our President

Enhancing the Quality of Island Life Through Conservation

Like Maine and, indeed, the world, Islesboro has changed over the years. Not so long ago, everyone in the year round community considered the island “theirs” between Labor Day and Memorial Day. This meant walking wherever and whenever, hunting deer, rabbit and duck, gaining access to the shore almost anywhere, picking wild apples wherever, harvesting quarts and quarts of berries on private but uninhabited property, and generally feeling that, like a good tool or favorite shirt, the Island was ours to use and take care of thoughtfully.

As years passed, it became clear that development and a host of demographic, social and cultural changes were altering the landscape with consequent risks that these changes posed to everyone’s enjoyment of Islesboro. In response to these risks, a coalition of local and seasonal residents established IIT to provide access to the shore and the other amenities of open space then slowly eroding. From the beginning, IIT’s land protection actions have been democratic, benefiting all equally, and will do so forever. Based on these principles, IIT first purchased Hutchins Island and the southern half of Spruce Island — iconic properties that will forever be part of the Islesboro heritage. IIT conservation continued with the acceptance of easements from property owners who agreed to permanent, non-revocable development restrictions on their land, thus contributing to preservation of the views and rural character of the Island. The acquisition of Big Tree Beach, Turtle Head, other significant properties, and most recently, Broad Point, came next. The IIT properties are ecological preserves that have well maintained trails, which are open to all, and which give everyone the opportunity to enjoy the woodland, marshes and shore from all directions.

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Is there a cost to these essential Island amenities? Yes, but measurable advantages more than offset the costs.

There is considerable research evidence elsewhere that protected open space land helps maintain or elevate property value for nearby land. Open space is a measurable amenity, like good schools, which the market values. Although IIT pays reduced property taxes because of a State law that declares open space preservation is in the public interest, IIT nevertheless paid the Town of Islesboro more than $21,000 in property taxes this year! IIT used virtually no Town services and cost the Town essentially nothing but provided places like Turtle Head and Hutchins Island to walk, hunt, launch boats and do what we all at some time or other wish to do, perhaps NEED to do, in relatively wild, or at least undeveloped, open space. These exceptional places clearly meet the State Legislature’s ambition to allow tax abatements where there is a clear public interest. To enumerate just a few of those public interest factors:

Open spaces do not place any identifiable demand/cost on the schools, the fire department, the ambulance service or town management.

Open space substantially contributes to the health of the aquifer, an important factor in daily residential life because there is no municipal water supply.

Employment opportunities are increased, as there is increased demand for carpenters, plumbers, electricians, clam diggers, lobstermen and others from seasonal residents who are attracted by the natural beauty made possible by conservation.

Open space supports tourism and second-home development; encourages more cost-efficient

development; allows nature to perform its life-giving, valuable work cleaning the air, offsetting carbon emissions and recharging the aquifer; and establishes a quality of life and aesthetic experience that attracts businesses, teachers, artists, fishermen and many others to cherish Island life.

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In turn, open space generates or supports biological diversity, soil conservation and soil creation, genetic diversity, scenic views and other aesthetic values, agricultural opportunity, forestry, historic lands, purification of air and water, traditional rural character, quality of life, ambient healthful living conditions, archaeological, biological, botanical, and scientific opportunity, flood control and climate control.

These benefits are cumulative with those realized by the Town’s ownership of Town Beach and Moseley’s Dock, which do not contribute taxes but add pleasure to Island living. Other Islesboro charitable organizations also contribute greatly to our Islesboro experience but, like the Town, contribute no property taxes.

The Trustees of IIT are committed to maintaining the vision of our founders who, as our mission states, sought to enhance the quality of life for all who are here through the preservation of open space.

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Conservation for the Public Good

Islesboro Islands Trust’s fundamental purpose is conservation. The Microsoft dictionary defines conservation as “protection of valued resources: the preservation, management, and care of natural and cultural resources; protection from change: the keeping or protecting of something from change, loss, or damage.”

To fulfill our purpose, IIT saves undeveloped open space, provides nature-based learning opportunities and defends against threats to the natural resources and services that our

natural landscapes provide.

In protecting the ecological integrity of Islesboro and, to the extent that the surrounding region affects Islesboro, Penobscot Bay, IIT also protects the natural resource based economy represented by lobstering, boating, tourism and all the services that contribute to our high quality-of-life.

For something like 7,000 years, humans have lived and prospered with an ecologically vibrant Penobscot Bay. Yesterday I

sat on the edge of the shore at Broad Point looking down Gilkey Harbor and Brackett’s Channel toward the open ocean and distant, unseen horizon, much as people have done for thousands of years. A Kingfisher scolded me for bothering his solitude, the tide rippled clear blue, and sunlight poked fingers of bronze deep into the woods at my back. Nature’s veracity and honor imbued the moment.

But what is “true” Nature? Beside me grew a vigorous barberry plant, considered invasive, never seen on Islesboro before the end of the nineteenth or beginning of the twentieth century. Clams here are scarce now; mussels eviscerated, probably lost to green or Asian shore crabs. This mid-October day, while gorgeous, is above “normal” and as warm as what used to be a typical August day.

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According to J.B. MacKinnon’s The Once and Future World, when we look closely at the living world, we see how much we cannot see — we experience “the presence of absence.”

“Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same,” MacKinnon writes. The living world has been depleted and transformed.

To know what nature is today, and what it can be in the future, we need to know what it was like in the past. Without knowledge of Penobscot Bay’s past ecology, it is impossible to measure the integrity of its ecology today or to plan for its health and welfare tomorrow.

J.P. Farrow reported that early Islesboro settlers found an abundance of cod, halibut and salmon. “The waters abounded in fish and the shores in clams… The salmon were so plenty that the first town poor protested against being served with salmon more than twice a week.” Benjamin Church, in 1692, “seized beaver and moose skins from French and Indians on Acre Island.” Cod schooled so thick in Penobscot Bay at times that a man could almost walk across their backs.

A few thousand years ago before Europeans came to Islesboro, walruses frequented the Gulf of Maine and Native Americans ate swordfish. Even before that, when the mouth of the Penobscot River was near Mount Matinicus (Matinicus Island today), Paleoindians hunted our part of the Maine coast over grasslands,

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not forested land, with scattered clumps of birch, willow, alder and spruce. Wooly mammoths roamed grassy flatlands around Islesboro and Penobscot Bay, herds of mastodons browsed on the slowly emerging forest, and giant beaver built homes in the vast bogs. Archeological finds indicate that caribou were a primary food at this ancient time.

The ecological richness of Maine’s coast when Europeans arrived is legend. Certainly, the abundant flora and fauna here were wildly unlike natural resources in Europe at the

time. However, in context, MacKinnon points out that Penobscot Bay in 1492 represented a clash of shifting baselines – Europeans “discovering” what appeared as infinite riches even as the Americas’ original cultures were beginning to understand ecological limits.

From abundance to scarcityThe past held tremendous natural abundance. People drew on the plenitude of nature to feed themselves.

Like elephants, elders led ancient cod migrations. Today, there are no old cod to lead; in fact, there are hardly any cod at all and those found are a fraction of the size that once lived full, productive lives in and near Penobscot Bay. Same for haddock, flounder and numerous other fish species that not so long ago swarmed Penobscot Bay.

Islesboro clam-flats were in recent memory so productive that a clam factory overlooking Little Broad Cove bought clams by the barrel and employed several to remove the meat for sale.

Human actions have radically transformed most of the world, but those changes are largely invisible and that history mostly forgotten. Human influence touches every corner of the planet. Nature as

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we know it today is a fraction of what it was. MacKinnon says, “We live in a 10 Percent World.”

It might be fair to challenge even that assessment. Many fish caught in Maine have consumption advisories due to the amount of mercury accumulated in their tissue mostly from air pollution that drifts across the United States. Human production and release of carbon dioxide, known to cause global climate change, reached 393.31ppm in the atmosphere in September of this year, an increase of 77.33 ppm since 1959 (the first full year of instrument data).

All available evidence confirms that Islesboro, Penobscot Bay, North America, the world have changed dramatically. That we are not especially aware of this is sometimes called “change blindness” or shifting baseline syndrome.

“Change,” you may say, “is a natural state;” and you would be correct. However, there is a huge difference between background patterns of change and cataclysmic change. Humans continue to cause a vast ecological cascading effect that is cataclysmic in scale, an order of magnitude greater than the mass extinction of huge reptiles at the end of the Mesozoic era.

CodTake for example the collapse of the cod fishery in New England. According to Julia Whitty’s book Deep Blue Home, “Overfishing caused the Cod crash [along with haddock, hake, Pollock, cusk, redfish, flounder etc.]. Then Cod prey species, shrimp and small crabs, exploded. The shrimp and small crab food – zooplankton – declined by 45%. Meanwhile, phytoplankton, a food of zooplankton, increased because zooplankton was declining! Lastly, nitrate concentrations decreased as blooms of phytoplankton used them up.”

Fishermen, looking for alternatives, turned to urchins. University of Maine researchers report that urchin harvesting took off as cod declined. As sea urchin numbers dwindled,

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kelp beds, eaten by urchins, proliferated. The kelp forests harbor large Jonah crabs, which feed on immature urchins!

The Gulf of Maine evolved from a marine system dominated by large predatory fish, primarily cod, into something radically different. Researchers call this an “ecosystem flip,” whereby a whole, natural system capsized and, because of reinforcing feedback mechanisms, entered into an entirely different state.

“Dynamic food webs and dynamic climate are colliding. Big fish are ecologically extinct,” said Dr. Robert Steneck, University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, quoted in a November 19, 2012 Portland Press Herald report by North Cairn.

Climate ChangeThe scale of change in the world today is unprecedented and sometimes difficult to grasp. We have not just changed one or two isolated places. We have changed the earth, perhaps

inadvertently, but none-the-less decisively.

As Rebecca Solnit wrote in “The Age of Inhuman Scale” at TomDispath.com, “The crisis in the natural world is one of awareness as much as any other cause… With nature out of focus, it becomes easier to overlook its decline… Media do not give us the scale of the news or a real

sense of the proportional importance of one thing compared to another. When events are too huge, cognitive dissonance makes it difficult to assess significance.”

Glacial used to mean slow moving and slow to change. “Nowadays, glaciers are melting rapidly or disappearing entirely, and some – those in Greenland, for example – have

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gushing rivers of ice water eating through their base,” Solnit illustrates.

This year’s Mid-coast Regional Planning Commission’s fall meeting is all about sea level rise, in part because the Atlantic is rising 3 to 4 times faster than other oceans. Ocean temperatures, including Penobscot Bay waters, are alarmingly warm. The US Department of Energy warns, “Climate change will cause more energy breakdowns.”

Over the past 100 years, Maine had the fifth highest temperature change per decade in the nation. So far, in 2013, every month on Islesboro has been warmer than normal. Half of our largest rainfall events of the past century occurred in the past seven years. The September 11 storm of 2013, when hundreds if not thousands of trees were toppled on Islesboro like toy dominoes, must have set records for devastation and it was not even a hurricane!

Humans have altered ecosystems on more than 90 % of the globe – perhaps 100%, given the global extent of climate change. To say that we live in a 10 Percent World at this point is more a measure of the way we experience nature than an accounting of the loss of biological abundance and ecosystem stability. The natural world as we experience it today is a shadow and an echo of its former self.

MacKinnon explains, “The reason we have a new climate is because we have made ourselves a new world. Awareness of nature is not primarily a sentimental or spiritual practice, but a profoundly realistic one – a way of binding ourselves to the simple truth that human beings depend on ecological systems for survival…. Pay attention, and we will value nature more.”

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When we look closely, we see that we are part of nature, not separate from the myriad forces and species around us. IIT can help people find again their place in the complex reservoir of associations that is our ecology, our world.

MacKinnon again, “Nature may not be what it was, no, but it isn’t simply gone. It’s waiting.” Nature is waiting for us to rejoin, reconnect, restore and adapt to the earth once again.

The OpportunityAs much as Islesboro and Penobscot Bay have changed, we have the opportunity to restore the native ecology, one property and one person at a time. Not only are IIT’s preserves aesthetically pleasing and fun, they are repositories of biodiversity and locations in which we reconnect with the ecology of our island community. These IIT properties allow us to engage with the place where we live in a fundamentally more integrated manner than is usually the case.

Conservation, then, is about protecting places, species and valuable natural resources and preventing human activity from wiping them out. IIT uses the past as a guide to help us determine how we might make a place wilder again – to bring back the abundance, and the potential nature has to be abundant, and to be diverse. A wilder, more abundant environment is a more productive and therefore a more economically advantageous environment, too.

The intention is not to live in the past but to end the war of the present against the past, to give nature fuller expression in a world in which it is muffled.

We find ourselves at a fork and must choose a path. One direction leads to apocalypse, the other to embedding once more within our natural world – protecting land, learning from the world around us, inspiring ecological ethics.

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Grantors of Conservation Easements1986 – 2013

Sue Hatch & Tom TutorMissy Hatch & Vern Spinosa

2007

Gary & Greg Yeaton2007

Lawrence Hoder & Harriett Bering2007

Members of IIT“The Field”

2006Turtle Head Cove LLC2004 Mr. & Mrs. E.T. Williams

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Pike2002

Rev. & Mrs. Ned Sunderland2001

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Berg2000

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Burgess1998

Ginny & Lynn Hall1996The Hawker Trust

1996Jack & Sue Gardner

1995

Mildred Stanley1993Capt. & Mrs. V.V. Utgoff

1992

Mr. & Mrs. George Post1993

Caroline (Neenie) Pierce Doyle1989

Mr. & Mrs. Frank West1990

Mr. & Mrs. James Rowan1989Veronica Pendleton

1989

Mary Ann & Chuck Verrill1987 Lang & Valerie Smith

1986

Anne Owsley1988

Mr. & Mrs. Neil Lamb 2007

Denis Moonan & Pamela MacBrayne

2007

The Phyllis Frame Family 2008

Dr. & Mrs. Robert McNeil2011

Hodding Carter III & Patricia Derian2011

Ethan & Haven Ladd2011

Dudley H. Ladd2011

The Mary and Pyam Williams Family2012

Taz and Sue Stafford2012

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RECEIPTS and PLEDGES June 30, 2012 June 30, 2013Contributions: General Operations $ 192,763 $243,285 LPG Legal and Consulting 17,000 444,578 Broad Point – Contributions 80,000 15,000 Broad Point – Pledges 934,388 — Hinkle Property 10,000 — Total Contributions $1,234,151 $702,863Other Income 1,498 874Total Receipts $1,235,650 $703,737

DISBURSEMENTS General Operations Salaries, Health Insurance and Taxes $137,226 $132,257 Accounting and Bookkeeping 6,642 8,920 Island Explorations & Expeditions 4,376 2,503 Insurance 6,305 8,374 Legal Expenses 6,031 5,488 Maintenance 5,192 4,197 Miscellaneous 409 167 Office 7,308 10,678 Preserve Stewardship 1,789 2,228 Printing 4,622 3,392 Property Taxes 17,593 24,438 Subscriptions, Dues and Donations 1,700 1,750 Travel 2,079 2,302 Utilities 5,562 5,880 Total Operating Expenses $206,834 $212,574Special Projects and Capital Expenses Broad Point Acquisition and Expenses — $1,005,747 LPG Legal and Consulting 17,000 406,245 Hinkle Property 55,000 11,000 Frame Easement 7,078 7,078Total Expenses – Special and Capital $79,078 $1,430,070Total Disbursements $285,912 $1,642,644Excess of Receipts over Disbursements $949,738 ($938,907)

Schedule of Receipts and DisbursementsFor the Years Ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2013

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Balance Sheet SummaryFor the Years Ended June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2013

ASSETS June 30, 2012 June 30, 2013Current Assets Operating Accounts $83,176 $133,672 Broad Point Account 80,000 77,000 LPG Account — 38,699 Easement Stewardship Fund 20,316 18,324 Preserve Stewardship Fund 5,485 5,489Total Current Assets $188,977 $273,184

Equipment Net of Depreciation 6,072 5,732Pledges Receivable – General Fund 10,000 —Pledges Receivable – Broad Point 934,388 182,734

Land, Building & Easements Spruce Island Preserve 125,281 125,281 Hutchins Island Preserve 99,508 99,508 Big Tree Beach 29,965 29,965 Turtle Head Preserve 630,000 630,000 Hutchins Marsh Preserve 75,904 75,904 Herbert Preserve 180,880 180,880 Cregar Center 164,881 164,881 Batchelor Preserve 85,455 85,455 The Narrows Preserve 90,479 90,479 Hinkle Preserve 250,000 250,000 Broad Point Preserve — 1,000,000 Bluff – Easement 125,017 125,017 Speed – Easement 195,107 195,107 Frame – Easement 85,000 85,000Total Land, Building & Easements 2,137,477 3,137,477 Total Assets $3,276,914 $3,599,127 LIABILITIES Current Liabilities Accrued Payroll $ 4,280 $ 3,933 Accounts Payable 1,876 1,528 Hinkle Property Note 52,500 11,000 Frame Property Note 7,078 7,078 Broad Point Bridge Loan — 275,000Total Current Liabilities $65,734 $298,539 Long Term Liabilities Hinkle Property Note — 33,000 Frame Property Note 35,389 27,726Total Long Term Liabilities 35,389 60,726 Total Liabilities $101,123 $359,265 Total Equity $3,175,791 $3,239,865 Total Liabilities and Equity $3,276,914 $3,599,127

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American EagleThe Allen FamilyChristopher D. and Kate AllenMr. & Mrs. Philip D. AllenCarla and Hans BrighamMrs. Catherine V. BrighamMr. Nicholas Brountas & Ms. Marlane MelicanMrs. Lucy A. BurrClarence and Anne Dillon

Dunwalke TrustMr. Jonathan Z. Cohen & Ms. Julia PershanMr. & Mrs. Edward E. CohenThe Collins FamilyMr. Darrell CrateMr. Richard Gilder & Ms. Lois ChilesMr. & Mrs. Roger J. Heinen, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Bayard E. Hollins

– The Elizabeth FoundationMr. & Mrs. James R. HoughtonMr. & Mrs. Gladstone Jones, IIIMr. Paul D. KazilionisDr. & Mrs. Robert G. McNeilMrs. Betsy S. MichelMr. Stephen P. Reynolds & Ms. Susan Wolf

Mr. & Mrs. Langhorne B. SmithMr. & Mrs. Walter F. Stafford, IIIThe Dunn FamilyMr. Landon ThomasMr. & Mrs. E. Massie Valentine

Maine OspreyMrs. Linda CabotMr. & Mrs. Samuel CampbellMs. Mary Caulkins & Mr. Karl KisterMr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Gill, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Devens H. HamlenMr. & Mrs. Michael MacDougallMaine Community FoundationMr. & Mrs. Frederick S. Moseley, IIIMostyn Foundation

Mr. Arthur B. Choate, PresidentMr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. SeniorMr. & Mrs. David R. WeaverMr. & Mrs. David L. Wenner

Penobscot HeronCaulkins Family FoundationMr. & Mrs. Bruce ClaflinMr. & Mrs. Harden L. Crawford, IIIDr. & Mrs. William L. ElkinsThe Elkins Family FundJockey Hollow FoundationMr. & Mrs. A. Lee FentressMr. Thomas GohaganHarris and Eliza Kempner FundHelen Francis Ladd Family Fund

of the Triangle Community FoundationMs. Anita G. Herrick

Islesboro Islands Trust MembershipContribution Year 2012—2013

(July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013)

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Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. KaminskiMr. & Mrs. Jack G. KnebelMr. & Mrs. Edward P. LawrenceMr. & Mrs. Joseph B. LedbetterMr. & Mrs. Nigel S. MacEwanCary Slocum and Glenn MontgomeryMr. & Mrs. George StevensMrs. Elizabeth Weintz Cerf

– The Harbor Lights FoundationMr. Mark Umbach & Mr. Chris BeckerMr. & Mrs. Charles O. Verrill, Jr.

Islesboro EiderMr. & Mrs. Adam BirdMr. & Mrs. John C. BowlinMr. Jonathan BushMrs. Maud CabotMr. & Mrs. Antelo Devereux, Jr.Ms. Elaine W. Fiske & Mr. Philip L. LaddG. Peabody & Rose Gardner Charitable TrustMr. & Mrs. Thomas GillespieMr. & Mrs. Archibald L. GilliesMr. Rudolf F. Haffenreffer, IV &

Ms. Mallory MarshallMr. & Mrs. Reid D. HausmannMs. Ann B. HerseyMr. Robert Holmgren & Ms. Anita Spertus

Mr. James D. Houghton & Ms. Constance CoburnMs. Nina B. Houghton & Mr. Kent George, Jr.Mr. William S. JanesMr. John Kauer & Ms. Barbara TalamoMr. & Mrs. Haven LaddMr. Dudley H. LaddMaine InitiativesMr. James J. Mallon Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Dana G. MeadMr. L. Taylor MudgeStephen & Candace PhillipsPoint Harbor Fund Of Maine

Community FoundationMr. George B. PostRobert & Marietta RamsdellMr. & Mrs. Stuart W. RayMr. & Mrs. J. Woodward RedmondMr. & Mrs. Russell S. Reynolds, Jr.Dr. Lars C. RichardsonDr. & Mrs. Alan D. SchreiberMr. & Mrs. Bruce SuppesMrs. Polly Weintz Sanna

– The Harbor Lights Foundation (in memory of Elisabeth Brewer Weintz)

Ms. C. Florence WintersMs. Claire Winters

Red OakMr. George AppellMr. & Mrs. Reynolds BurgundMs. Nina Train ChoaMr. Henry Conklin & Ms. Carol Pierson

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Islesboro Islands Trust MembershipContribution Year 2012—2013

(July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013)

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Ms. Fiona M. DrummondDr. & Mrs. Phillip T. GeorgeMr. James M. HamlenMs. Margery M. Hamlen & Mr. Joseph HammerMs. Marjory W. HardwickMr. & Mrs. Pegram HarrisonMr. & Mrs. Abner KingmanMr. Sidney E. LazardMrs. Roxanne LeightonMs. Nancy L. NellisMr. Martin Phillips & Ms. Anmiryam BudnerMr. & Mrs. Scott ReevesDr. & Mrs. William R. RogersDr. & Mrs. William RosenbergMr. & Mrs. Robert F. Rothschild

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel RowlandMr. Marc V. SchnurMr. Charles J. SernsDavid & Betsy SessionsMr. & Mrs. Michael M. StevensMr. & Mrs. John Train

Mr. J. Fred Weintz, Jr. – The Harbor Lights Foundation (in memory of Elisabeth Brewer Weintz)

Dr. Eric C. Weintz – The Harbor Lights Foundation

Dr. Mary White

White PineMs. Madelaine L. Alexander & Mr. Jon KerrMr. Alexander BabbidgeMr. & Mrs. Martin BadoianMr. Philip Behr & Ms. Elisabeth RowanMr. & Mrs. John E. BelmonteMr. & Mrs. John G. Brisson, IIMr. Hodding Carter III & Ms. Patricia DerianMr. Morris ChestonMr. Donald P. EtchisonMs. Maria Christina ForneyMr. & Mrs. Frederick M. GardnerMr. & Mrs. John L. GardnerMr. John Lanier & Ms. Jane GarveyMs. Caroline A. GillespieNathaniel & Jessica GoldblattMr. & Mrs. David B. HathawayMr. & Mrs. John HigginsonMr. & Mrs. Mark KeatingMs. Beth LamontMs. Jeannie Lucas & Mr. Jim DuxMrs. Andrea LutzMr. & Mrs. James MeisterDrs. J. Andrew & Kelly RobertsMr. & Mrs. Christopher J. RooneyMrs. Jeanette SangerMs. Patricia ScarpelliMr. & Mrs. Robert O. SlaterMr. & Mrs. Fredrick StahlMr. & Mrs. Christian StolteM. David & Adena TestaMs. Alix T. ThorneMs. Lisa Train & Mr. Clive PinningtonMr. & Mrs. Henry S. Warren, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. E. Thomas Williams, Jr.Mr. Richard Youngman & Ms. Vanessa GillespieMs. Mary A. ZimmermanDr. & Mrs. Eric K. Zitzmann

Timber SpruceMs. Anne AllenMr. Richard Atlee

Islesboro Islands Trust MembershipContribution Year 2012—2013

(July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013)

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Ms. Corinne AxelrodMs. Helen BarrettMrs. May P. BartlettMr. Allen H. BartonMr. John C. BaylesMr. & Mrs. Wirt A. Beard, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Gregory BeckMr. David BeckMr. David BergDr. Harriet Bering & Dr. Larry HoderMr. Edgar Bering IVMr. David BethuneMr. & Mrs. Frederick M. BishopMr. William Boardman & Ms. Lisa SatchfieldRev. David W. BoultonMs. Joanne BoyntonPhilip & Marina BraswellMs. Johnna B. BrazierDavid & Elizabeth BrockMr. & Mrs. Clayton S. BrownMr. & Mrs. Stephen BuckleyMr. & Mrs. Roger BurkePaul & Julie ButlerLindsey and Andrew CabotMr. & Mrs. Eric CambraMr. & Mrs. Douglas CarmichelMr. & Mrs. Thomas O. CarpenterRev. & Mrs. Norman J. Catir, Jr.Mr. Page C. ClasonMs. Phyllis CoelhoMr. & Mrs. Jack CoffinMs. Nancy Crooker & Mr. George SiscoeMr. & Mrs. Michael CullenMr. & Mrs. Joseph F. CullenMr. & Mrs. John B. Custer

Dark Harbor Boat Yard Corp.Ms. Patricia DirlamMr. & Mrs. Larry DornischMr. & Mrs. Jon DreznerMs. Elin ElisofonMrs. Elizabeth ElliottMr. Paul EmmiMrs. Maureen FischerMr. & Mrs. John S. FosterMrs. Phyllis FrameDr. & Mrs. Joseph F. FreemanMr. & Mrs. Leon J. GhougasianMr. & Mrs. Edward T. GirvinThe Honorable Caroline D. GlassmanDr. Martin J. Gliserman & Ms. Marilyn RyeMrs. Irene Emery GoodaleMr. Kenneth GreeneMr. Richard Grisaru & Ms. Gitta RobinsonMr. & Mrs. Harleston J. Hall, Jr.Ms. Kathryn HallMs. Lynn HamlenMs. Gillian HannumMs. M. Melissa Hatch & Mr. Vernon SpinosaAndrea Heap & J. Gavin WatsonMr. Thomas L. HinkleMr. & Mrs. Lawrence S. HobartMr. & Mrs. Neil P. HoffmannMr. & Mrs. Harry B. Hollins IVMr. Michael Horn & Ms. Patricia BeliveauDr. Keith HutchisonIslesboro Island NewsIslesboro Marine Enterprises, Inc.

Fredericka & Charles JennerMs. Beverley JonesMrs. Diane Temple KeehnerMr. Charlie Kelley

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Ms. Susan LauchlanMr. & Mrs. Abbott LawrenceMs. Jennifer Lawson & Mr. Larry ElyMs. Sasha LazardWilliam Lehr and Bouzha CookmanMs. Joan LillieMs. Constance Logan & Mr. Mark KremenTimothy & Barbara LoganMs. Christy Love-SadronMr. & Mrs. Anthony LowMr. Rod LuhnMr. & Mrs. David G. MahanMr. Peter D. MatthewsMs. Joanne McNallyMrs. Ellen S. McNamaraDr. & Mrs. William C. MeadeMr. & Mrs. Ved MehtaMr. James Miller & Ms. Mollie NoyesMr. & Mrs. Charles MillerMr. Ranlet Miner, Jr.Holly Mitchell & Will ChapmanMr. & Mrs. Richard HoffmanMr. & Mrs. Nathanson

Northeast Resource Recovery AssociationMr. & Mrs. Patrick O’BannonMs. Sandra OliverWhitney & Tony OppersdorfMrs. Lilias OuterbridgeMs. Parrino & Mr. CramptonMr. & Mrs. Andrew PasakarnisMr. Charles W. PendletonMs. Carol Andrea PendletonMr. Stanley Pendleton & Ms. Diana RobertsMr. & Mrs. David PetzelMr. Roy Pfeil & Ms. Juliana PostMr. George Evans & Ms. Shar PiperMr. & Mrs. Christopher C. PostMr. & Mrs. Joel S. PostMs. Diana PostMr. & Mrs. Douglas PutnamMrs. Yvette ReidMs. Virginia Reidy & Mr. Steve LarmoreMs. Anne Renarde & Mr. Dan BoxerMr. & Mrs. Frank E. Ruch, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. John R. SaleMs. Jane SanfordMr. & Mrs. Palmer SargentMr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. SauterMr. & Mrs. SchlagerMs. Susan SchnurMrs. Katharine SchwarzenbachAdam & Lorna SeamansRev. & Mrs. Lyndon ShakespeareDr. & Mrs. Huntington SheldonMr. Paul SheridanMr. & Mrs. Robert S. SlawsonMr. & Mrs. David Speed

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Mrs. Mary E. SteeleMs. Wiltrut ThomasMr. Sam ThompsonMr. & Mrs. Harry P. TowerMrs. Priscilla B. TullyMs. Sarah TullyMs. Ellen TullyMs. Katherine P. TuttleMs. Jane VickeryMr. William Warren & Ms. Jean AndersonMs. Anne WarrenMrs. Janet M. WebbMr. & Mrs. Douglas WelldonMs. Paula WelldonMs. Patricia E. WestRev. E. Joanne Whitehead & Ms. Lois HillMr. & Mrs. Henry WilderMr. & Mrs. Larry WonsonMr. & Mrs. Andrew Zelonka

Islesboro Islands Trust MembershipContribution Year 2012—2013

(July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013)

2013 ISLESBORO ISLANDS TRUSTCONSERVATION AWARDS

Presented to deserving students from the Islesboro Central School who best exemplify the goals and purpose of Islesboro Islands Trust.

The educators at Islesboro Central School who know them best nominate and select the students who receive these awards.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLAll students in Grades 3 and 4

Aisling Morse, Betsy Babbidge, Erin Durkee, James Ramsey, Jay Legere, Kaden Pendleton, Kamren Start, Liberty Gallant,

Mitiku Yeatts, Sophie Lau and Thomas Randlett.MIDDLE SCHOOLCameron AndersonHIGH SCHOOL

Eli Legere

ANSLEY BELL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP TO TANGLEWOODThis memorial scholarship is supported by a dedicated

fund at the Maine Community Foundation, and locally administered by Islesboro Islands Trust.

Eoin Kehoe and Nathaniel Eldridge

In-Kind ContributionsMr. & Mrs Martin BadoianMr. Allen H BartonMr. Edgar BeringMs. Margery Hamlen & Mr. Joseph HammerMr. & Mrs. George HopkinsMr. & Mrs. Langhorne B. SmithMr. Christian and Mrs. Jacqueline StoltzMs. Gladys ThomasMr. William S Warren and Ms Jean C. Anderson

GrantsAnsley Bell Tanglewood 4-H Camp and

Learning Center Scholarship Fund of the Maine Community Foundation

Marji Greenhut – Maine Initiatives

Peter Hunt – Maine Community Foundation

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Education, Communications and Special Events

Lisa Beck, ChairSara BabbidgeMargery HamlenHeather Knight

Shar PiperJulie ReidyBeverley RogersElisabeth Rowan

Trail Maintenance

Bruce ClaflinJohn & Shana IzaijsJairus Miller

Daniel TutorJesse TutorThomas L. Tutor

Staff anD contractorS

Kangas & Kangas, Certified Public AccountantFred Stocking, Legal CounselMadeline Tomlin Associates, BookkeepingJairus Miller, Trail Maintenance & MowingBill Schoppe, Trail Maintenance

Stephen Miller, Executive DirectorElana Kehoe, Administrative SpecialistKristen Kelley Lau, Island Explorations CounselorHeather Sinclair, Island Expeditions Leader

Committees

aDviSory councilArchibald GilliesMargery Hamlen Pegram HarrisonJewell HausmannJames D. HoughtonLaura Houle

Gladstone Jones, IIIJon KerrSandra KramerNancy KrusellEdward LawrenceRobert Luxembourg

Mary Beth BlakeMaxwell CaulkinsJonathan CohenTodd CongdonShey ConoverThomas Gill, Jr.

Nigel MacEwanDeborah McNeilStephen PhillipsShar PiperJulie Reidy William Rosenberg

Elisabeth RowanPhilip SeymourLandon ThomasFrances TrainDaniel Tutor Virginia Valentine

Islesboro Islands Trust Membership

Lydia RolersonLily Guest Anne Owsley Liberty Redmond

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Edward Lawrence

Fundraising and MembershipChristopher Allen, ChairArchibald GilliesGladstone Jones, IIIJulia Pershan

Beverley RogersWilliam RosenbergLanghorne SmithVirginia Valentine

Cregar CenterEvan Schmidt, ChairJohan Brigham

Stephen MillerNominating

Sue Stafford, ChairHelen Barrett

Stephen Miller

Land ConservationDevens Hamlen, ChairChristopher AllenDarrell CrateArchibald GillesEdward Lawrence

Robert McNeilJim MitchellJulie ReidyCharles Verrill

Easement StewardshipSue Stafford, ChairLinda & Martin BadoianGreg & Lisa BeckDavid Brock & FamilyTodd & Robyn Anne CongdonPatty & Jeff CrawfordAlice FayTom & Jody GillLinda GrafDavid & Harriett HathawayJewell HausmannNina HerrickOwen & Betha Howell and FamilyGlad & Amanda Jones

Jon Kauer & Barbara Talamo Laurie & Mark KeatingMichael & Kathy KerrHaven & Molly LaddMolly McNamaraJairus MillerHolly Mitchell & FamilyKim & Taylor OngaroCraig Olson & FamilyJulia PershanAnne RenardeKatie SchwartzenbachLang & Marilyn SmithWalter StaffordAllie Wood & Nancy Krusell and FamilyKay Wood

Sara BabbidgeJohan Brigham

Andrew CoombsDarrell Crate

Julia PershanDiana Roberts

boarD of truSteeS Charles Verrill, PresidentLanghorne Smith, Treasurer

Christopher Allen, Vice PresidentJames Mitchell, Secretary

Devens HamlenHeather Knight

Beverley RogersSue StaffordThomas L. Tutor

Phenology TeamHelen BarrettKatie HeckelNancy KrusellAndrew Kahrl

Sue StaffordTaz StaffordHanna Wood-Krusell

PO Box 182 · 376 West Bay Road · Islesboro, Maine 04848207-734-6907 (voice) · 207-734-6747 (fax) · iitsmill@gmail.com (email)

www.islesboroislandstrust.org

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the preservation of open space,

Educate all residents as to the value of the islands’ natural ecosystems, and

Act as an environmental advocate on behalf of Islesboro and the surrounding Penobscot Bay region.

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Islesboro Nature Trails

Warren’s LandingThis property, located at the end of Lime Kiln Road, was given to the Town of Islesboro by IIT in 1993. It offers shore access and views across East Penobscot Bay to Castine and Cape Rosier. Warren’s Landing is the site of an historic lime kiln and steamboat wharf.

Hinkle PreserveProvides access to a sand and gravel beach, a picnic area and a short loop trail through a fern meadow under mature hardwoods. Access is from Point Comfort Road.One trail: 0.2 miles

Hutchins Island and MarshThese neighboring preserves offer two spectacular hikes in the Coombs and Parker Coves area. Elaine’s Trail leads inland around the wetlands and beaver flowages of Hutchins Marsh. The Hutchins Island Trail crosses a tidal sandbar, and then follows the shoreline of Hutchins Island. Both trails offer excellent wildlife viewing opportunities. Over 139 species of plants and 112 species of birds and other wildlife are found here. Parking is at the end of Bluff Road.Two trails: 2.5 miles total

Turtle HeadThis preserve at the northern tip of Islesboro offers dramatic views of both east and west Penobscot Bay, spectacular geological formations, historical sites and a variety of interesting ecological features. Access is from Turtle Head Road. Shore access is also available.Three trails: 1.5 miles total

Big Tree BeachThis is a popular swimming beach with westerly views across Seal Harbor to Flat Island and the Camden Hills. Access is from Main Road.

Narrows PreserveThis short loop trail along the shoreline of Crow Cove offers scenic salt marsh views and good birdwatching. Access is from Main Road. One trail plus ashor spur: 0.5 miles

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Broad Point PreserveIIT’s newest preserve, acquired in August 2012, offers nearly fifty acres of spectacular shorefront on Mill Creek, Broad Cove and Gilkey Harbor. One loop trail: approximately 1.5 miles

Lily Guest TrailThis IIT-managed trail is entirely on private land and offers a beautiful walk along the shore of Jones Cove.One trail: 1.5 miles

· All trails blue-blazed· Maps and rules are posted at preserve trailheads

Herbert PreserveThe Herbert Preserve offers two loop trails in the scenic Ryder’s Cove area. The Herbert Trail explores the western side of the preserve following the salt marsh edge and returning through upland forest and steep drainage ravines. The Eastern Trail winds through early-successional forest alond the shore of the Mill Pond providing access to the Day Brigham Memorial Lookout. Access is from Ryder’s Cove Road.Two trails: 1.75 miles total

•Cregar CenterSite of the IIT office and surrounding gardens. The property includes a small piece of shore as well.

Islesboro Islands

Trust2012/13 Annual Report